Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for March 16, 2013

Ah yes. The “New” Coke. Only to be quickly replaced when the corporate bean counters finally got the message that no one liked or was buying the new.

What a marketing disaster! I remember it well.

Ummm… even the current Coke is Very different… It tastes Nothing like the “Old Coke” it use to be made with Real sugar.You have to go to Europe to get the Real Coke today.

Back when Tom Hanks was young and Daryl Hannah was hot.

There is a metatextual irony in defunct comic strip characters philosophizing about being unchanging, always the same forever….

Everything changes. Bloom County ends. Even Opus ends.

There will always be repeat strips.

As a Pepsi drinker, I liked new Coke.

28 years later and you are still 10 years old and romping among the daisies.

New Coke supposedly came about because in blind taste tests, avowed Coke lovers actually preferred Pepsi. New Coke was supposed to taste more like Pepsi, and in pre-release blind taste tests people preferred it to old Coke.

Lesson? We don’t know what the eff we like unless the right brand name is attached to it.

Anyone here ever done a blind taste test of your favorite carbonated beverage, its various competitors, and its store-brand version? Me neither. I buy store brand, and only when it’s on sale.

BTW Binkley – Don’t ever watch Arrested Development. You’ll have a stroke.

New Coke was to compete with Pepsi in taste. I have seen the new Coke machines with dozens of pushbuttons for flavors. Maybe there is room there to reintroduce the New Coke and maybe win back some of the losses from the first time?

Anybody notice the throwaway reference to Howard’s production company,Imagine?